. >> osgood: good morning. i'm charles osgood and this is sunday morning. our language has many phrases that presume the permanence of the earth beneath our feet. we speak of solid ground, hallowed ground, and standing your ground. but what if the ground on which you're standing proves anything but solid, more hollow than hallowed? we're speaking, of course, of sink holes, a natural phenomenon

shrouded with myth and mystery. mark strassman will search for the sink hole truth in our sunday morning cover story. >> reporter: in the last year, this place went from a haven for retirees to a virtual ghost town. residents fled worried that the earth might swallow their homes. >> you never think about something like that. no, i could never imagine a sink hole. >> reporter: a giant cavity below ground that rises to the surface is the disaster you never see coming. that sinking feeling, later on sunday morning. >> osgood: the first lady michelle obama has a list of goals for herself. this morning she looks ahead to the next four years and beyond with our lee cowan. >> come on, buddy. reporter: it's the first time in their professional lives that her husband isn't running for something. which leaves the first family's future more wide open than ever. have you allowed yourself to sort of picture life after the

white house? >> not really because there's so much to plan right here. we just planted last week. >> reporter: we talk gardening, grief and growth with the first lady later on sunday morning. >> that's his job. osgood: mark harmon is one of the most familiar faces on television. but the real life story tops almost anything he's portraying on the screen. we talk about it this morning with our tracy smith. >> camera ready. reporter: mark harmon is merely the number one star on the number one show on the number one network. but long before he played an action hero, he actually was one. though he would never admit it. >> you just react. that's all you do. >> reporter: you can't even take credit for that. >> i'd like to think that i would do it again, but i don't know. >> reporter: ahead on sunday morning, the heart and guts of mark harmon.

>> osgood: the word meltdown doesn't always mean something terrible as bill geist will show you. >> reporter: not since the beatles and bieber have we seen such frenzied fans. what's driving them wild? you'll be shocked to learn that it's grilled cheese mania. ahead on sunday morning. >> osgood: bill whitaker will preview the big movies of summer. mo rocca takes us back to the mexican-american war. joel sartore shares a photo album of migrating birds and more. but first the headlines for this sunday morning the 5th of may, 2013. israeli warplanes struck areas around damascus in syria early today. the target was another shipment of iranian-made missiles which the israelis believe was on its way to leb and he's hezbollah

militants. seven american soldiers and another member of the nato coalition in afghanistan were killed yesterday. it was one of the deadliest days in recent months. it comes not long after the tall i and announced its spring offensive. the second autopsy will be performed today on the body of tamerlan tsarnaev. it was requested by the parents of the marathon bombing suspect. they believe their sons are being framed by the u.s. government. boston continues to rally around the marathon victims as evidenced in this picture taken shortly after the attack showing an injured man being rushed from the blast site. last night jeff bowman waving "boston strong" flag was saluted by fans before a bruins' play-off game. the 27-year-old lost both legs in the attack. authorities in california say five women in their 30s died last night when the limosine they were in caught fire on the san mateo bridge over san francisco bay. five others escaped. one person had serious burns.

california firefighters are making progress against the wild fire that's burned more than 40 square miles in coastal mountains west of los angeles. with calmer winds and cooler temperatures, the fire is said to be more than 50% contained, and there's a chance of rain today. at the 139th running of the kentucky derby, orb finished first in the race at churchill downs. golden soul finished second and revolutionary was third. now to weather. rain might ruin some picnics down south today but it will answer more than a few prayers out west. the days to come should be mostly sunny and dry. turning wetter toward the end of the week. next, when solid ground isn't. and later... >> these are herbs. reporter: ... a visit with the first lady.

>> osgood: we can't claim to have the whole truth and nothing but, but there is a growing body of research into those headline-making sink holes that can turn an abode into an abyss in the twinkling of an eye. our cover story is reported now by mark strassman. >> if you're a fan of horror movies, sink holes make perfect sense. the earth suddenly opens up with

no warning and no escape. and swallows whatever is on the surface. cars, homes, entire neighborhoods. but sink holes, of course, are all too real worldwide in places like china, brazil, and guatemala. florida has so many of them, it has been called swiss cheese covered by soil. >> it looked as if a bomb had been dropped in the middle of town. >> reporter: in 1981, this one near orlando grew longer than a football field. one resident described the sound like giant beavers chewing. and just last month, a sink hole in chicago ate three cars. of course, the sink hole horror story most of us know best is the one back in february in florida near tampa. where a sink hole 250 feet wide and 60 feet deep opened in the middle of the night. it swallowed the bedroom where 36-year-old jeff bush was sleeping. he disappeared into the widening

hole, screaming for help. his body was never found. the fourth known sink hole fatality in florida. >> about anywhere you live in florida, there is the potential for sink hole to occur. i imagine there were pockets of water. >> reporter: john arthur, florida's state geologist, is an expert on sink holes. florida's surface has close to 70,000 likely sink holes. at least 3400 of them reported since the 1950s. >> a sink hole is a naturally occurring feature that forms when a cavity in the sub surface collapsed and basically what was a hole in the ground is now on the land surface. that cavity forms from the natural dissolving of rock. >> reporter: florida's bedrock, mostly lime stone, lies below layers of soil, sand, and clay. that bedrock is porous and over time can erode and become unstable forming what geologists

call carst. from time to time, changes in the water table, natural or man made, collapse this karst and create sink holes. that collapses can happen in minutes but take months to settle. >> in all states but hawaii, there is at least some karst. that's true. if you look at a map of karst for the nation, there are little corners that have the potential for some type of karst activity. >> some states have a greater risk for sink holes than others? >> yes. reporter: not all sink holes are the work of nature which takes us to louisiana. ask nick and brenda romero about a sink hole's impact. in 1997, they moved full time to bayou corn, a mix of working families and retirees 45 miles south of baton rouge. >> when this place was full of folks what kind of community was this?

>> it first started out as a fishing community. people were friendly. they stopped. they talked. they shared their stories. >> people liked each other so much, every year bayou corne held its own mardi gras parade part of its cajun charm. >> what is the address? 145 craw fish stew street. you see the bubbles coming up? >> yep. reporter: last may people started noticing something odd. gas bubbles in the water nearby. then on august 3, a sink hole opened one third of a mile from the bayou corne neighborhood. over the last nine months that hole has stretched 15 acres wide and plunged 170 feet deep. it filled up with water, rock, oil, and natural gas. are these folks coming back? >> no, no. reporter: no one enforced a mandatory evacuation order but roughly 80% of bayou corne's 350

residents, including both the romeros' next door neighbors, packed up and left. he wants to stay put. >> i'm not ready to just move out and depend on the sheriff or somebody to protect my property and everything i've worked so hard for. >> reporter: and this is home. this is home. reporter: your home. yes. reporter: again while most sink holes are natural disasters, this one was not. whose mistake? >> it was a mistake. reporter: preventible? yes. reporter: an oil and gas service company called texas brian was drilling into a massive underground salt deposit near bayou corne. the excavation caused the side wall of a salt dome to collapse. three months later the sink hole openedded. >> we don't have a complete understanding of why that failure occurred. >> reporter: bruce martin, the vice president for operations at texas brian says his company has drilled 30 relief wells trying to contain and burn off natural gas leaking from the sink hole into the aquifer. he believes the sink hole will

never threaten the homes in bayou corne. but the company, pressured by the state of louisiana, is preparing buyout offers for all the residents. >> i would be upset if that was my home, too. the response has been very challenging chg it's been an all-encompassing full frontal assault for the past eight months. i think we're starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel that is coming to an end. >> reporter: but martin also admits the sink hole could continue to grow for another year or two. >> i think when is this going to end? is it going to end correctly? >> reporter: mary lee orr is the executive director of lean, the louisiana environmental action network. the group says bayou corne's disaster should be a warning about developing in sink hole prone areas. >> sadly we do have sink hole potential here. we really want to make sure that there are buffer zones, no homes or nursing homes or schools or hospitals anywhere near the domes. >> reporter: john arthur, florida's state geologist, says

states could map land surfaces for sink hole risks and where needed toughen construction codes. >> if a home is built in on sink hole sensitive area, is there anything you can do to prevent it? >> there are ways to mitigate that risk. you can ground inject and fill that hole and make the land more stable. it's a combination of geology and engineering that can hold the key to that answer. >> reporter: texas brian has been paying residents in bayou corne $875 a week to cover temporary housing costs. buyout offers are expected in the next couple weeks. but nick romero says trust between residents like him and the company have collapsed. like the sink hole. he wants to stay but he's torn between two loves. >> my wife has had cancer. twice. she doesn't... if she doesn't want to be here, then i don't blame her.

i'm not going to force her to stay here. so we've looked for other places to go. but until that time, i'm staying here. i'm not going anywhere. >> reporter: you love your house. you love your wife more. >> yes. reporter: the last thing the romeros ever thought would be their major worry in retirement was a sink hole. i am an american success story. >> osgood: next, all aboard. i'm a carpenter. i'm an accountant. a mechanical engineer. and i shop at walmart. truth is, over sixty percent of america shops at walmart every month. i find what i need, at a great price. and the money i save goes to important things. braces for my daughter. a little something for my son's college fund. when people look at me, i hope they see someone building a better life.

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over the next two decades lawmen scrambled to catch people like the notorious jesse james even as the gunman's daring deeds captured the public's imagination. the crime wave inspired the landmark 1903 film "the great train robbery." >> that ought to do it. osgood: while many years later in 1969, paul newman and robert redford portrayed the exploits of the robbers known as butch cassidy and the sun dance kid. >> do you think you used enough dynamite there, butch? >> osgood: though the days of armed passenger train robberies are behind us, freight train theft remains a problem. 1995 scott pelley showed us night scope footage of thieves at work in the deserts of the southwest. >> this night the train stops. police say the figures are running away with tvs.

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even the cat bird lifts its wings for a moment to reveal perfection, not one feather too many or too few. though you may not recognize them those aerial acrobats in your favorite forest aren't strangers. they're most likely the same old friends from last year and the year before. and many have just flown in from south america. ever wonder how they do it? we haven't got a clue. oh, sure, we understand that birds like cranes learn landmarks along their migratory routes from their parents and that other species find their way using the angle of the sun or the stars or the earth magnetic field but that's about it. we've studied them for decades, but the astounding precision of mird migration is still fundamentally mysterious and unknown. take many warblers, for example. biologists think they may have a celestial chart in their heads to navigate by.

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first lady michelle obama has been living in the white house for over four years now enjoying moments of accomplishment but also sharing moments of national grief. our lee cowan has paid her a visit. >> hi. how are you? >> how are you? so good to see you. thank you for inviting us. a beautiful day. doesn't get much better than this. >> so nice, bright and shiny. reporter: it was a bright and shiny day when they met at the white house just three days before the events in boston and west texas. >> the garden changes week to week. >> reporter: those twin tragedies cast a long shadow over a spring that was just beginning to bloom that day out on the white house garden.

it all changed so quickly. in the days following our tour, the president and the first lady found themselves attending memorial services for the dead. offering the consolation of a nation, she says, has been more powerful than almost anything else she's had to face. when there are no words, how do you come up with the words to say? >> you know, in those moments i try to speak from my heart. and i try to do a lot more listening than i do talking. it's tough but knowing that a hug, that an ear, that a ray of hope... we know how important that is. so that, you know, helps you find the words somehow. >> reporter: she found the words in her hometown chicago recently, scarred by some 500

homicides last year. most of them gun related. and the death of 15-year-old, murders just a week after performing at the president's inauguration. >> her family was just like my family. she was me. and i was her. >> reporter: that really seemed to strike even closer to home. maybe in part because it was home. >> absolutely. after i gave that speech, i spent some time with a group of wonderful kids at harper high school in inglewood, a community that has been riddledded with violence. to hear them share their stories of how every day we wake up and they wonder whether they're going to make it to school alive. i mean every single kid worries about their own death or the death of someone every single day. >> reporter: they told you that? yes. we have millions of kids living in these kinds of circumstances. we as a nation have to embrace these kids and let them know

that we hear them. we see them. one kid told me he felt like he lived in a cage because he feels like his community is unseen, unheard and nobody cares about it. what's our obligation to these kids? we do have one. >> reporter: critics claim she was using the violence in her hometown for political gain in the gun debate. but others praised her, calling it the nonpolitical plea of a mother with two young daughters. >> all right. ready. >> reporter: either way, her concern for the nation's youth has been her top priority since becoming first lady. she started with a battle that is is hardly controversial. childhood obesity which according to the centers for disease control has more than doubled in the last 30 years. >> let's get moving. let's move. let's do this. >> reporter: her initiative, a program calls let's move hopes to end childhood obesity within a generation. >> let's move is is not about telling people what to do. but it's about giving people the information so that they know what to do.

>> reporter: how do you overcome the kids just not wanting to eat their vegetables? that's probably... that probably hasn't changed. i mean, i didn't want to eat my vegetables when i grew up. >> that's true but you had to eat your vegetables. >> reporter: correct. somehow that shifted where all of a sudden we think that kids should have a complete say over what to eat. kids don't know. that's one of the reasons why we're trying to educate them so they can help educate their parents. but my kids know. you have to eat your vegetables. so our household is no different. our kids are not somehow veggie lovers in a way unusually... >> reporter: it's still a struggle. >> it's still a struggle. that's what i share with other parents. it is a struggle. >> reporter: hence, the first lady's first book. american grown. it's a guide of sorts with advice for parents, schools and local governments on how to combat the obesity crisis. and all of it is built around her own pet project: a kitchen garden on the south lawn. when you first brought up the notion of having a garden at the white house, were there a few

raised eyebrows? >> no, surprisingly. i had no idea what the reaction would be, but... hi, bo. >> reporter: any chance to play in the garden, the first dog beau will be happy to take it. this day was no exception. this is the garden's second term as well. ever since ground was broken four years ago, kids from all over the country have come to play and plant in the dirt. everything from peas and carrots to a new crop this year: wheat. is there a learning curve? >> oh, they were learning curves all over the place. we had a lot of failure going on. lots of failure going on out here. >> reporter: but many successes too. >> this is our apple tree. reporter: so this is new. this is new. this is this year. >> reporter: it is starting to bud. a little bit. >> don't touch it. just kidding. >> reporter: don't do that to me on the white house grounds.

>> oh, my goodness that was funny. >> reporter: she says the first family comes down here almost every evening in the summer when the nights are warm. and beau is right there with them. >> beau. reporter: come here. he seriously never like tries to dig anything out. >> no. he doesn't. >> reporter: you're a good dog. he is a good dog. he's a worker. he's non-responsible. >> reporter: most nights the white house menu is driven by what comes out of the ground here. but on friday nights, all bets are off. >> friday is steak night. that's, you know, we're not vegetarians. we love red meat. but we generally have steak on friday. that's the president's favorite dinner. so friday night are steak nights. >> reporter: when the president isn't home, their daughters sasha and malia get a rare chance to decide. >> dad not being here is kind of a good thing because they get to pick the menu.

there's stuff he doesn't like. he doesn't like a lot of cheesy stuff. they'll do it when he's traveling. but that helps them not miss him. it's sort of like dad's not going to be home for dinner. it's like, yeah, we get to pick dinner! >> reporter: with four more years left at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, she says the first family isn't thinking of life after the white house, just yet. have you allowed yourself to sort of picture life after the white house? >> not really because there's so much to plan right here, you know. >> reporter: in the meantime, she says, they're savoring a first: not having to run. >> what's it like now for the first time in i don't know how long that you don't have an election facing your family? >> glorious. i mean, if i could think of a better word. it's nice. >> reporter: does the white house feel a little less claustrophobic. >> the limits are still the same. i'd love to walk with you out

the gate, but it would cause a stir. you know, when i make a foray into target, it's national news. that hasn't changed. but we are now accustomed to it. we know how to work within the structure. >> reporter: are you looking forward at all to not sort of being that center of attention? i mean when your haircut makes front page news, that's got to be exhausting. >> you learn to appreciate the value of anonimity, and the president and i, you know, we will grow to appreciate that greatly in four years when, you know, the every day sort of things we do don't make front page news. but we also know the privilege of the platform that we have. i don't take this platform lightly. i try to cherish it and make the most of it every single day.

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>> osgood: it happened this week. a beloved painting in a whole new light. dutch scientists astonishd the art world by announcing that foes familiar blue walls in van gogh's 1880 painting the bedroom had originally been purple. art historians have long noted the shift in van gogh's palette over the years from the dark and somber colors of early paintings such as the potato eaters to the strikingly bright colors he used after moving to the south of france. now thanks to electron microscopes and x-ray fluorescent, researchers believe that the colors we see today aren't the colors that the artist actually chose to use. they feel that when van gogh put his bedroom on a canvas he mixed

blue pigment with red an unsphaibl red pigment, a color that faded with time leaving only the blue. not revealed by the scientists' analysis is exactly what drove van gogh to kill himself just two years later at age 37 or why in his lifetime he is said to have sold just two paintings. coming attractions coming up next. >> that was pretty,,,,,,,,,, medications?

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bill whitaker previews the contenders. >> wait for my three count. one, two... unbelievable. >> reporter: hollywood is playing by the numbers this summer. >> i've just gotten a contract to kill you. >> reporter: from red 2 to hangover part 3. >> did you get it? reporter: fast and furious six. the multiplex will be filled with sequels and remakes and some high-stakes gambles costing hundreds of millions of dollars. >> they're all pushing greater amounts of money to the middle of the table and placing their bets. >> reporter: kenneth durand is film critic for the los angeles times. >> you know, this is a gambler's business. they found that when one of these hits, it goes through the roof. >> reporter: starting with this weekend's blockbuster, ironman 3. >> how many can i carry? four, sir. reporter: this is a darker

kind of version of ironman? is it more serious. >> but it is really well done. reporter: superman gets a reboot again in "man of steel" 75 years after he first appeared in the comics. and hugh jackman has played the wolverine so often, he's got it nailed. >> hugh jackman who is just miserable in les miserables back with these enormous fingernails. s in one of those marvel characters that people enjoy watching. >> who doesn't love a good magic trick? >> reporter: there's the sleight of hand caper now you see me about a group of illusionists who have something up their sleeves. >> the final trick. we are going to rob a bank. >> 1, 2, 3. pull over. did you miss me. >> reporter: buddy films abound this summer. denzel washington and mark wahlberg in "two guns."

vince vaughan and owen wilson search for jobs at google in the internship. >> you interns, shut up. deal with it. you're so old though. reporter: and melissa mccarthy and sandra bullock play an odd couple of uncool cops in "the heat." >> that was pretty awesome. reporter: and those not so scary buddies from monsters inc. are back in the prequel monsters university. >> reach deep down and let the scary out. >> reporter: one of several animated offers this summer. johnny depp is tonto to the lone ranger in the remake of the classic tv western. >> justice is what i seek. reporter: the film reportedly cost some $225 million to make. >> let's do this. there's a lot of people who will put their money down just

to see the lone ranger again. >> reporter: we'll be seeing the young crew of the enterprise again. >> mr. spock. reporter: star trek into darkness boldly goes where 11 star trek zones have gone before. >> spock, we're here. what should we do? >> it lets you die. reporter: it's monsters versus robots in pacific rim from director. >> today we are in the apocalypse. >> reporter: anything this director puts his hand too is well worth seeing. >> reporter: it's the have's of the future versus the have-nots. >> i need to get to elysium. reporter: with matt damon and jody foster. the z is for zombies in world war z starring brad pitt.

this is the end plays the apocalypse for laughs with seth rogan, joan a hill and friends. >> every single time i turn on the news. >> reporter: if you think that summer in hollywood is all about science fiction, super heroes and lots of action, well, there is some truth to that. but look a little closer. you'll see there are some diamonds in among the rough stuff. francis hagh from director noah bombback is the story of a young woman played by greta trying to find her place in life. >> what do you do? kind of hard to explain. because what you do is complicated. >> i don't really do it. there's something about this film that is magical. it's just a treat to watch it. >> reporter: fruit veil station is based on the true story of

oscar grant. >> do you have plans for the night. >> i meet up with the fellows and out to the city. >> reporter: he was shot in the back by a transit cop at an oakland train station. it won the top prize at sun dance. >> oh, my god. reporter: also ripped from the headlines, sophia coppala'ss the bling ring about celebrity crazed teenagers who steal from the homes of the stars they're obsessed with. >> do you speak to any of the victims? >> i've spoken to all the victims. >> really? what did lindsay say? >> reporter: stars take a back seat in the documentary 20 feet from stardom which puts the spotlight on the back-up singers. >> my life has been all about trying to make a success of the gift that i have. >> reporter: 20 feet from stardom is just fun from beginning to end. >> it's just a completely irresistible film. >> reporter: from director josh

weeden we get shakespeare's much ado about nothing made for next to nothing. >> i love thee. reporter: he shot it in his backyard with some actor friends in modern dress. >> love is made entirely of your own imagination. >> reporter: finally f. scott fitzgerald's the great gatsby makes it to the screen for the sixth time. >> it is a great story but it is defeated best efforts of the movie makers for decades. we'll cross our fingers that this one works better. >> reporter: this one is in 3-d with leonardo dicaprio, carrie mulligan and tobey maguire. >> can't repeat the past. you can't repeat the past? no. reporter: of course you can repeat the past. hollywood does it all the time.

>> osgood: just ahead... that goyness right there, that is the sign of an absolutely delicious grilled cheese. >> osgood: say cheese. ,,,,,,,,,,,,

sandwich lovers are going through a bit of a meltdown these days. bill geist shows us why. >> reporter: the grilled cheese, humble, simple and inspencive has never sought the spotlight. suddenly grilled cheese mania is sweeping the nation. really. >> i declare the 2013 grilled really. >> i declare the 2013 grilled cheese invitational officially open. >> reporter: the sandwich was treated like a rock star during a recent appearance at the grilled cheese invitational in los angeles. >> we all like grilled cheese, i

think you can probably tell. >> reporter: where some 6,000 fans absolutely ate them up. >> amazing. so good. >> reporter: the main event that these lactose indulgent people came to see was the cook-off. where 150 entrants from throughout the country competed for best grilled cheese. cries of "hot cheez" filled the air. >> hot cheese. reporter: calls for runners to take samples to judges and to the teeming masses. >> it's definitely the american idol of grilled cheese. >> reporter: hard to believe that this man started this a few years ago in his apartment with a few friends. >> we're going to have at least, i would say, somewhere between 30,000-40,000 grilled cheese sandwiches will be eaten on this

very spot. >> reporter: there are four categories in the competition. >> there's the american style which is just white, red, orange cheese and butter. no additional ingredients. >> reporter: how do you stand out in that category. >> grilling acumen. reporter: i would call this category real grilled cheese. just like mother used to make. >> the next category is the missionary category. that's any type of bread, butter and cheese but no additional ingredients. >> reporter: like this entry by a person who journeyed 3,000 miles for the event. >> we have a local north carolina bread. the cheddar pumpkin seed bread. >> reporter: the third category is the anything goes category. >> when he says anything goes he isn't talking about adding a slice of tomato. >> tomato, leaks, crispy bacon, a horse radish cream sauce.

thyme-infused olive oil. >> and the honey pot which is the dessert category. bread, butter and cheese plus the additional ingredients plus it has to be sweet. >> reporter: you don't spare on the butter. >> i'm not a big fan of sparing on anything. >> reporter: los angeles chef eric greenspan who has won the invitational has grilled cheese on the upscale menu at his restaurant. >> this is going to be greenspan's grilled cheese. >> reporter: and is building a grilled cheese restaurant. others have already opened grilled cheese restaurants in several cities like this one in new york. is this your piece de resistance. >> for sure. reporter: greenspan's signature grilled cheese is called the champ. >> that goyness right there, that is the sign of an absolutely delicious grilled cheese sandwich. raisin walnut bread.

dried tomato, arugula and then for giggles we put on chopped beef. >> reporter: delicious. i don't know if it's a grilled cheese sandwich. >> don't start. reporter: chef eric bristles with purists who can't change with times grilled cheesewise. >> is it tasty? has it got melted cheese on it? anybody who is going to come to a grilled cheese restaurant is going to be like this isn't a grilled cheese. you're not getting it. i mean like is it a grilled cheese sandwich? i don't know. it's delicious. eat it. >> reporter: back at the invitational... >> we won the people's choice awards. >> reporter: dave sold about,000 of his cheesy mack and rib sandwiches from his grilled cheese truck. why is grilled cheese suddenly the "it" sandwich? >> the economy goes bad people go right to comfort foods. this is the epitome of comfort foods.

>> reporter: could you do the same thing with peanut butter and jelly. >> there is a truck out there, a peanut butter and jelly truck out there right now. >> reporter: life is like a river. and a box of chocolates. but life is also like a grilled cheese. simple and satisfying. >> this is a tiramasu grilled cheese with chocolate syrup. >> reporter: it grows ever more complex. >> yum. do you think you'll ever live down being the sexiest man alive? >> osgood: next mark harmon from grid iron... >> turn off the car. osgood: ... to n.c.i.s. and later down mexico way.

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sunday profile. >> reporter: he's arguably the biggest star on tv. >> action. reporter: but what makes mark harmon's story truly remarkable are the things he's done when no one is watching, things he rarely talks about. more on that later. but first what millions see every week. harmon's show, n.c.i.s., the police procedural that airs on this network happens to be among the most watched shows on television. it's reliable in that the good guys always win. >> shouldn't someone be reading me my rights. >> you have no rights. you're a terrorist on a u.s. navy ship. we're invoking the patriot act. >> reporter: and funny in a sly kind of way. >> put your pants on. reporter: it's also durable. n.c.i.s. is just now wrapping up its 10th season. let's go back to 2003 when n.c.i.s. started. how long did you think this ride would last? >> all actors think their ride is going to last forever.

>> reporter: seriously? yeah. we're kind of naive. or i am anyway. >> reporter: on screen, the 61-year-old harmon is agent leroy jet row gibbs, lead investigator and man of few words. >> that's not nothing. no, that's something. it's like you. >> reporter: off screen his cast mates say he has pretty much the same strong, silent style. >> this is the best job in the world. >> reporter: is mark in real life anything like gibbs? >> hmmmm. yes-ish. he's really pleasant person to be around. because there's none of that. there's none of that me, me, me, me, me, you know. it's kind of nice. >> pretty ordinary joe. reporter: with the number one show. >> pretty ordinary joe for a guy who is the biggest tv star in the world. >> waste not, want not. reporter: the show, his show, draws around 22 million viewers a week. harmon won't take any of the charge for that or really much of anything.

why don't you take the credit? >> it's too early. reporter: it's not just this show i'm talking about. you never take the credit. >> i guess because i don't believe it's just me. we all do it together here. we do. >> reporter: the team concept has always been important to him. the son of heisman trophy winner tom harmon mark grew up tossing a football and wound up as a starting quarterback at u.c.l.a. after graduation, he tried his hand at jobs as diverse as carpent reand corporate sales. he took acting classes at night. >> when i told my mom and dad that i was going to really try to go 100% and be an actor, i mean my parents were supportive but they thought i was out of my mind. >> reporter: did their minds change as time went on? >> eventually. reporter: as an actor, he's always been willing to take a risk. as dr. bobby caldwell in saint elsewhere he was one of the first prime time characters to

contract aids. and in the highly regarded tv movie the deliberate stranger he was eerily believable as serial killer ted bundy. >> hi, my name is ted by the way. >> the bundy role was a stretch. i was glad to put that one away when it was done. >> don't move at all. i'm a federal officer. >> reporter: harmon seems more comfortable playing characters on this side of the law like a secret service agent in the west wing. >> sir, hate to be a problem customer but if i don't get a milky way bar... >> reporter: but in a job as an actor where he's expendable mark harmon is drawn to things that last. a world away from the n.c.i.s. set on the windy streets of oklahoma city, he has quietly made a difference. how did you drag mark harmon to oklahoma? harmon and a small group of friends, like dr. michael wright, have expanded the oklahoma city indian clinic which now serves 3500 kids.

>> it was just two rooms. just a couple of rooms right here. two rooms not even. a little bigger than that. >> reporter: harmon and friends hold a charity baseball game every year with the money going toward everything from nutrition counseling to new buildings. >> if we can lend our time and impact this place like, you know, obviously we have,... >> reporter: you like that solid wall. >> i do. i like that it's there. i like that it will remain there. >> reporter: but mark harmon's life hasn't always been this, well, serious. in january 1986 he was named people magazine's sexiest man alive. an honor immortalized on saturday night tv. >> mark is what sex is all about. >> reporter: do you think you'll ever live down being the sexiest man alive? >> i never even accepted living it up. to be honest with you i don't know who in their right mind could ever take that seriously.

but believe me, there are guys who do. >> reporter: not long after he was named sexiest man, he met and married his match. pam dawber, mindy in the series with robin williams. >> whenever we have an allergic reaction we sneeze like a-choo. >> that's what happens when we eat dore eatees. >> reporter: after the first of their two children was born harmon made a conscious decision to stick closer to home. >> i left to do a movie in new guinea. our oldest had just taken his first steps the day i left. and i came back three months later and he got out of the car by himself and walked up the sidewalk and grabbed on to my leg at the airport. i turned to my wife and i said, i hate to tell you but i'm not going to be doing movies in new guinea for the rest of my life to be able to afford the house we're in. >> reporter: despite his being a father or maybe because of it, he once did something you usually only see in the movies.

on a quiet night in january 1996, two teens crashed their car near the harmon's l.a. home. one kid crawled free. the other was trapped in the car. and burning alive. harmon broke the car's glass with a sledge hammer and pulled the trapped boy out of what was by then an inferno. >> there was very little time. when i broke the window to get to him, the fire went from a 2 to a 7 like that. i grabbed for him once and caught his belt. upsidedown blind in the car. he came out on his back in one push. the fire had burned through the seat belt. if you think about it, maybe you would respond differently. >> reporter: you can't even take credit for that. >> i don't take credit for it because if the car blows up and i'm there next to the car, then you're talking about two young boys who don't have a father. you would be doing this interview with my wife and talking about how stupid it was. >> reporter: the young man harmon pulled from the car was horribly burned. but he survived.

what do you think would have happened to you if it weren't for mark harmon? >> i mean i know i would be dead. >> reporter: he is now 33 and works as a personal trainer in l.a. the tattoos on his arms and legs are camouflage for scars and skin grafts. once he got you out and got you on the ground aboutson seconds later the car blew. >> literally blew up. people are like is he your angel? he's not an angel because an angel has no sense of mortality. i mean this man had a wife and kids. he wasn't just a good guy. he was somebody's husband and somebody's father. maybe that's what helped guide him to it because he's like i'm somebody's son. he went in there and just pulled me out. i don't know. it's amazing. >> leon, this is fun. reporter: n.c.i.s. will be back for an 11th season next year. with harmon as gibbs still in command. >> i didn't know if you'd recognize me. >> reporter: what if the folks

here came to you and said, we think gibbs needs to be killed. >> rock on. eporter: really? it's the thing. i'm a team guy. i mean it's like, if that's... i think anybody can leave. i think we all think that here. it's not an actor's choice. our choice is to play the role. that's all i've ever tried to do. >> my choice. i wouldn't have it any other way. >> reporter: given its current ratings success, the show may last for another ten years or more. if it does, mark harmon probably won't want any credit for that either. >> these stleb ritees aren't just stars. >> osgood: coming up, look for this. [ agent smith ] i've found software that intrigues me. it appears it's an agent of good.

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stars, skating with celebrities, celebrity motor homes, celebrity poker showdown, hulk hogan celebrity championship wrestle, celebrity closet confidential, famous food. celebrity rehab, celebrity mo. i'm a celebrity get me out of here. >> i'm like the hood ornament on the car of creation. >> reporter: a few celebrities have turned these shows into close to a full-time job. baldwin brothers and playboy play mates pop up with alarming frequency but none seem to be able to exploit their former notoriety as gary busy. he has been on celebrity wife swap, celebrity apprentice, celebrity para-normal project and celebrity fit club. reality appearances can be a big career boost. and while the truly a-list tend to shy away as the celebrity diving show splash promises... >> stars are fall.

reporter: when they do, there will be dozens of reality shows waiting and willing to help them extend their 15 minutes even further. >> osgood: coming up at the halls of montezuma.

>> osgood: for the people of mexico, the halls of montezuma are much more than the words of a song. they represent a humiliating military defeat at the hands of

the united states in 1847. not even the 1862 military victory over france that mexicans celebrate today is enough to fully heal the wound. mo rocca tells us the story. (taps). >> reporter: every year in a small cemetery in mexico city, 750 unknown american soldiers who died in the mexican-american war, are remembered. >> that conflict marked a dark chapter in the long relations between our countries. >> reporter: american ram bass dore earl anthony wayne has to tread diplomatically over an issue that is still raw here. >> here in mexico, of course, they remember it because large parts of the united states were parts of mexico before that war. >> reporter: but north of the border, the war is all but forgotten. in 2008 this absolute vodka ad

showing a map of mexico stirred outrage in america. was absolute calling for mexico to conquer the u.s.? in fact, this is what mexico once looked like. >> it's the first war that is fought for greed rather than principle in american history. so there was no great ideological reason why we were going to war against mexico. it was the first war that we started with the presidential buy. >> reporter: penn state historian amy greenberg argues in her recent book that the war was engineered by president james k.polk. >> james polk went to congress and said american blood was shed on american soil but almost nobody except americans claimed where the land where the blood was shed was actually american soil. when zachary taylor marched his troops between the rio grande and he was marching his troops over mexican land. >> reporter: they were looking for a fight.

>> no question about it. reporter: they were looking for a fight because polk had a vision to complete america's manifest destiny. >> he really firmly believed that it was america's destiny to spread to the pacific and to take california and he was going to do anything necessary to accomplish that goal. >> reporter: do whatever it takes in service of this higher vision of the united states. >> god had singled him out to do this. >> reporter: so a long and bloody war began. it would prove to be the training ground for many officers who later became famous in the civil war. for one of them, uwe liz he's; grant, the experience was troubling. there is that very stirring yoat. i do not think there was ever a more wicked war than that waged by the united states on mexico. >> right. he also says that he thought so as a youngster but he not the moral courage enough to resign. >> reporter: grant saw action in almost every major battle. as did robert e. lee. the future union and confederate leaders fighting on the same side of a war that brought them all the way to mexico's capital.

and the halls of montezuma. ♪ from the halls of montezuma to the shores of... ♪ >> reporter: yes the opening line of the marine's hymn refers to the battles that took place here in mexico city. >> from the halls of montezuma refers to the marine corps participation in the war of 1847. >> reporter: for lieutenant colonel william fern, his own uniform is a memorial to the bloody struggle. >> corporals and above wear this red stripe. it's by tradition we call it the blood stripe because 90% of the officers were killed during that battle. >> reporter: every weekend thousands of mexican families visit the city's vast park in the middle of it, the castle. in 1847 the scene of a very different gathering. >> one part of the troops came from the the west side of the castle. >> reporter: this man is

director of the national history museum at the castle. in 1847 this was mexico's west point where future officers came to be trained. mexican general santa anna -- yes, the same one who had massacred texans at the alamo 11 years earlier -- posted his troops alongside the cadets. >> 45 or 47 students of the academy were boys between 14 through 19 years old. >> reporter: teenagers. yes, teenagers. reporter: during a frenzied two-hour battle american troops used ladders to overtake what had seemed an impregnable fortress, a devastating blows to the mexicans. >> when mexican troops withdrew from their positions, the cadets stayed there and continued fighting. according to history and lure, one of the cadets wrapped himself in the mexican flag and

threw himself over the castle walls. >> reporter: for mexicans the six cadets who chose to die rather than surrender have made this site hallowed ground. >> it's like a symbol for the mexicans. it's very special symbol. i think this monument is like the alamo for the texans. >> reporter: professor fabiola says that from the fiery battle was forged a fierce sense of mexican nationalism. >> so the emotions about that are still alive today? >> yes, yes. it's still alive and still emotional. >> reporter: despite the victory, many americans had soured on the war. it had inspired the first national antiwar movement when journalists reported atrocities suffered by mexican civilians. one staunch opponent of the war, a young congressman named

abraham lincoln. >> his first major political address on the national stage was in opposition to the war with mexico. >> reporter: he paid for that. he did pay for that. he got a lot of flak from his constituency back home. >> reporter: is there any evidence that he regretted it at all? >> absolutely not. he never wrote a single word in opposition to what said about fighting in mexico. >> reporter: with the american army occupying mexico city, the war ended with a treaty that realized president polk's vision. that's not all. the u.s. still has possession of general santa anna's captured wooden leg. >> mexico has asked for the leg back many times. illinois won't give it up. >> reporter: that's kind of shameful. >> i don't know. reporter: give the leg back. the fourth illinois volunteers took that as a trophy of war. >> reporter: how do mexicans today view this war? >> well, as a disaster.

mexico lost half of their own territory. >> reporter: for museum director salvatore ruida, the end of the war was the beginning of a long love-hate relationship between mexico and the united states. it's call the mexican-american war in the u.s. what is it called here? >> american invasion. reporter: this conflict matters today because? >> because a lot of people live on land that was taken from mexico in this war. they're not aware of that. i believe a lot of the immigration debate that's going on now operates in a vacuum where people are not realizing that, in fact, mexicans are here in lands that once belonged to mexico. [ other merv ] welcome back to the cleaning games. [ merv ] mr. clean magic eraser extra power was three times faster on permanent marker. it looks like mr. clean has won everything. the cleaning games are finished? and so are we. [ male announcer ] clean more, work less, with the mr. clean magic eraser extra power.

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robel phillipos who is accused of making false statements to investigators in the boston marathon bombing case. tuesday is election day in south carolina's first congressional district. that's where republican mark sanford the former governor, is battling for a vacant house seat against democrat elizabeth colbert-busch, sister of tv comic steven colbert. wednesday is the 68th anniversary of v.e. day, the day nazi germany surrendered unconditionally to the allies. on thursday prince harry begins a six-day trip to the united states. his first visit here since photos of him partying naked in las vegas emerged last august. on friday the finance ministers and central bank governors of the g-7 economic powers begin a two-day meeting. and saturday sees the opening of the 2013 warrior games. open to wounded, ill and injured service members and veterans. back to more immediate future

and bob scheiffer in washington. for a look at what's coming up on "face the nation." good morning, boone. >> schieffer: good morning, charles. we'll have startling new disclosures about what really happened that night in benghazi when four americans were killed and was there a cover-up to prevent criticism that the state department was not doing enough? to protect its own people? >> osgood: thank you, bob scheiffer. we'll be watching. next week here on sunday morning, double bill. actor sidney poitier and tom hanks on broadway. and you can make them even more special... with fancy feast mornings. mornings are delicious protein-rich entrées... with garden veggies and egg. each one perfectly designed... to start her day with a little love. fancy feast mornings gourmet cat food. the best ingredient is love.

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